Great Art Quotes - Page 9

• All great art ... creates in the beholder not self-satisfacti on but wonder and awe. Its great liberation is to lift us out of ourselves.

  Dorothy Thompson

  Art, Self, Wonder

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• I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art.

  Maggie Nelson

  Art, Thinking, Formulas

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• The great artist takes what he needs.

  Kenneth Clark

  Artist, Needs, Great Artist

  Kenneth Clark (2015). “Civilisation”, p.89, Hachette UK

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• When one has praised Turgenev, however, for the beauty of his character and the beautiful truth of his art, one remembers that he, too, was human and therefore less than perfect. His chief failing was, perhaps, that of all the great artists, he was the most lacking in exuberance. That is why he began to be scorned in a world which rated exuberance higher than beauty or love or pity.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  Beautiful, Art, Character

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• I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass.

  Joe Murray

  Art, Personality, Pieces

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• You can't get anywhere without incredible passion, because if you're an entrepreneur, there's gonna be a lot of bumps in the road. A great artist has to do their art. There's nothing that can stop them from doing it. They just have to get it out there. It's the same thing for an entrepreneur. If you don't feel that way, then you're probably not really an entrepreneur.

  Trip Hawkins

  Art, Passion, Entrepreneur

  "The 'I Am' Q&A". www.cnbc.com.

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• There are selections so acute that they come to define a place, with the result that we can no longer travel through that landscape without being reminded of what a great artist noticed there.

  Alain de Botton

  Artist, Greatness, Landscape

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• Time is not a great artist but weakens all he touches.

  William Hogarth

  Time, Artist, Great Artist

  William Hogarth (2013). “Engravings by Hogarth”, Courier Corporation

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• Waiting is one of the great arts.

  Margery Allingham

  Art, Waiting, Self Control

  Margery Allingham (2015). “The Tiger in the Smoke”, p.35, Ipso Books

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• The immortality of great art seems bound up with the inevitable loss of its original surface meaning and its rebirth in the spirit of every new age.

  Anton Ehrenzweig

  Art, Loss, Age

  Anton Ehrenzweig (1967). “The Hidden Order of Art: A Study in the Psychology of Artistic Imagination”, p.77, Univ of California Press

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• Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Past, Greatness

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• Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Artist, Way, Needs

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• A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Art, Contentment, Artist

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (1909). “Heretics”

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• It's very true that an artist who networks well will have better opportunities than one who doesn't network well. But great networking skills without great art won't change art history.

  Mark Kostabi

  Art, Opportunity, Skills

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• Ultimately, it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done and then try to bring those things into what you're doing. Picasso had a saying: good artists copy, great artists steal. And we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas, and I think part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspiring, Memorable, Thinking

  "The Television Program Transcripts: Part III". www.pbs.org.

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• In war there is but one favorable moment; the great art is to seize it!

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Art, Military, War

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• Well, we have certainly produced great art before we did this. In my view, there are any number of areas of government which tax money should not be spent.

  Charlton Heston

  Art, Government, Views

  Interview with Ken Masugi, Senior Fellow, and Colleen Ryor, ashbrook.org. October 6, 1995.

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• A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Wise, Wisdom, Artist

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (1909). “Heretics”

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• Michael Jackson did something that no one else in history has managed - he connected with people on every level imaginable, all over the world. He seemed to speak to people at their very core and achieved the impossible. He reached people on a deep emotional level. And that is what any great artist or showman dreams of doing. That is why Michael Jackson was so special to me.

  David Blaine

  Dream, Emotional, Artist

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• It is necessary that... we should believe that we are as capable of producing great art as we believe we are capable of doing great deeds.

  Arthur Lismer

  Art, Believe, Deeds

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• Economy is the first and great article (economy such as I understand it) in my financial creed. The controversy between direct and indirect taxation holds a minor, though important place.

  William E. Gladstone

  Important, Taxation, Firsts

  Letter to his brother Robertson of the Financial Reform Association at Liverpool in 1859. "Gladstone as Financier and Economist" by F. W. Hirst, p. 241, 1931.

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• The great artist when he comes, uses everything that has been discovered or known about his art up to that point, being able to accept or reject in a time so short it seems that the knowledge was born with him, rather than that he takes instantly what it takes the ordinary man a lifetime to know, and then the great artist goes beyond what has been done or known and makes something of his own.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Art, Men, Use

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2248, Simon and Schuster

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• Architecture isman'sgreat sense of himself embodied in a world of his own making. It may rise as high in quality only as its source because great art isgreat life.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Art, Quality, World

  1930 In Frederick Gutheim (ed) Frank Lloyd Wright on Architecture: selected writings (1894-1940).

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• There are so many great artists, I think, who kind of suffer from being icons, legends, acknowledged masters.

  Richard Linklater

  Artist, Thinking, Icons

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 14, 2006.

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• To be a great artist, you have to be willing to take risks and to do things that no one would ever pay you for - at first.

  Josephine Decker

  Artist, Risk, Pay

  " How Do You Make a Living as an Independent Filmmaker? It’s Not Easy" by Paula Bernstein, www.indiewire.com. December 16, 2014.

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